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IV.] THE AFRICAN NEGRO: II. 89 



There remain the north-eastern Hamites, and especially the 

 Galla branch, as the essential extraneous factor in 



riamitic 



this obscure Bantu problem. To the stream of Element 



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migration described by M. Clozel as setting east 

 and west, corresponds another and an older stream, which ages 

 ago took a southerly direction along the eastern seaboard to the 

 extremity of the continent, where are now settled the Zulu-Xosa 

 nations, almost more Hamites than Negroes. 



The impulse to two such divergent movements could have 

 come only from the north-east, where we still find the same ten- 

 dencies in actual operation. During his exploration of the east 

 equatorial lands, Capt. Speke had already observed that the 

 rulers of the Bantu nations about the Great Lakes (Karagwe, 

 Waganda, Wanyoro, &c.) all belonged to the same 

 race, known by the name of Wahuma. that is, The Wahu - 



mas. 



" Northmen," a pastoral people of fine appearance, 

 who were evidently of Galla stock, and had come originally from 

 Gallaland. Since then Schuver found that the Negroes of the 

 Afilo country are governed by a Galla aristocracy 1 , and we now 

 know that several Wahuma communities bearing different names 

 live interspersed amongst the mixed Bantu nations of the lacus- 

 trian plateaux as far south as Lake Tanganyika and Unyamwezi- 

 land. Here the Watusi, Wahha, and Waruanda are or were all 

 of the same Hamitic type, and M. Lionel Decle "was very much 

 struck by the extraordinary difference that is to be found between 

 them and their Bantu neighbours 2 ." Then this observer adds : 

 " Pure types are not common, and are only to be found amongst 

 the aristocracy, if I may use such an expression for Africans. The 

 mass of the people have lost their original type through intermix- 

 ture with neighbouring tribes 3 ." 



With these words M. Decle put his finger on the key 

 of the whole situation. From these indications and many others 



1 " Afilo wurde mir vom Lega-Konig als ein Negerland bezeichnet, welches 

 von einer Galla- Aristokratie beherrsch wird " (Petermanrfs Mitt. 1883, v. p. 



194)- 



2 Jour, Anthrop. Inst. 1895, p. 424. For details of the Wahuma type see 



Eth. p. 389. 



3 Ibid. 



